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IIo.v 649,238. Patented May 8, |900.

J. A. GALLAGHEB.

WASHING MACHINE.

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.1. A. GALLAGHER.

WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Feb. 3, 1900.)

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i STATES PATENT Finca.

WASHINGIV|ACH|NE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 649,238, dated May 8, 1900.

Application tiled February 3, 1900. Serial No. 3,775. (No model.)

- T0 all whom, t may conceive.'

Beit known that 1, JOHN AMBRosE GAL- LAGHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stockton, in the county ofl San Joaquin and State of California, have invented cerers skilled in the art to which it appertains` to make and use the same.

The invention relates to improvements in washing-machines.

The objects of this invention are to provide a machine which will subject the clothes being washed to a treatment similar to that through which they undergo when washed by hand and whereby any particular portion of a garment may be cleaned and to provide a clamping device for securely holding the clothes which will readily adjust itself to suit the amount of clothes undergoing cleaning and, furthermore, to accomplish the above results in the most simple and efficient manner.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangements of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical longitudinal sectional View of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line wx of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the machine folded, and Fig. 4 is a detail of the clothesgripping device.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the body or suds-box of the washing-machine, rectangular in form and supported at a convenent height by legs 2 and provided with a sheetmetal lining 3, which also forms the bottom of the suds-boX. The uprights or standards 4 are pivotally secured to the sides of the suds-boX and are securely held in their upright positionby means of the stationary brace-bars 5 and the pivoted brace-bars 6 and have arranged in their upper ends bearings in which work the journals of the rocking cross-bar. In the center of the rockingcross-bar 7 is formed a bayonet-slot 8, adapted to receive a bolt 9, secured in the upper end of the oscillating rod or board 10, which has rigidly secured to the lower end thereof a cross-bar 11, which in turn has pivotally secured to each end curved levers 12 12. A cross-bar 13 connects the free ends of the levers12 and serves asahandle for reciprocating the oscillating frame just described. The 1evers 12 12 have their inner ends pivotally secured to the ends of the cross-bar 13, from which point theycurve downwardly and rearwardly and have slidably secured in their A to the body portion to form arms 17 17, which are passed upwardly through converging slots or recesses 14 14, formed in the lower curved portion of the levers 12 12, and are pivotally connected at their upper ends. As shown, the said slots 14 14 are made by forming recesses in the outer sides of the levers 12 12 and securing a removable plate 16 thereover.

The roller-bed is situated in the bottom of the suds-boX and consists of bars 2O 2O at each side of the bottom and extending the entire lengththereof and having a slightlycurved series of rolls 2l centrally located between the said bars and connected therewith by suitable bearings. In the present case the rolls are made in the form of a tube and rotate on rods 22, which are firmly fixed in the bars 2O 20.

l The operation of my machine is as follows: It will readily be seen that by raising the handle of the levers the gripping-jaws will be forced open on account of the upward pressure of the stop or slot division 15 and also that the slightest upward pressure against the said jaws or clamping-blocks will tend to force upward the upturned ends of the jaws in their slots and cause the said jaws to close to a corresponding degree, and the greater the pressure the tighter the jaws will be closed. It will thus be seen that when the handle 13 of the oscillating levers is raised IOO the clamping-jaws will open and be in position to take hold of a garment either in the forward or rearportion of the suds-box, which is accomplished by merely resting the clamping-jaws on the garment desired to be cleaned and depressing the handle of the levers, when the jaws will be forced together and the garment tightly held between them and can be reciprocated over the roller-bed 2l as long as is necessary. Vhen a new hold is desired or another garment, all that is necessary is to raise the handle 13, and the garment being cleaned will drop from the jaws, when the operation isrepeated.

Vhen the machine is not in use, it can be folded together by first disconnecting the reciprocatin g frame from the rocking cross-bar, which is readily accomplished by simply slid- `ing the bolt on the bar 10 out of the bayonetslot in the said cross-bar, after which the said bar l0 can be folded between the levers l2 l2 and the oscillating frame laid ont of the way in the snds-box. The uprights or standards are then released by depressing the innerends of the pivoted brace-bars G, when the standards can be made to lie flush with the top sides of the suds-box, the rocking cross-bar, which connects the upper ends of the standards, taking a similar position at the end of the machine. The pivoted brace-bars are then made to resume their former positions. By placing a suitable cover on the machine as now folded it could be utilized as a table, if desired.

What I claim is- 1. In a washing-machine, the combination of a body having a roller-bed therein, standards secu red to the said body carrying a reciprocating frame, the said frame having slotted levers connected therewith and a clothesclamp working in the said slotted levers, substantially as set forth.

2. In a Washing-machine, the combination of a body having a roller-bed therein, standards secured to the body carrying a reciprocating frame having connected therewith curved levers with slots therein, and a clothes-clamping device consisting of clamping members provided with upwardly-extending arms pivotally connected at their upper ends and slidably working in the said slots, substantially as set forth.

3. In a Washing-machine, the combination of a body, nprights or standards pivotally secured to the sides thereof, a rocking shaft having its ends journaled in said standards and provided with a bayonet-slot, an oscillating frame provided with a bolt that eugages said bayonet-slot, and a rubber connected to said oscillating frame, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN AMBROSE GALLAGIIER.

Witnesses:

JAS. M. MCCARTY, Unas. A. Lr'nv. 

